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Associate Professor of Spanish Literature Bruno Bosteels has been recently praised as "one of the most important emerging philosophical voices at Cornell" for his translation of Alain Badiou's Theory of the Subject (Continuum, 2009). Bosteels' new book: Alain Badiou, une trajectoire polémique (La Fabrique, 2009) was published in October.
Bosteels is co-director of an international work group on Comunismo y actualidad" [Communism and Actuality], as part of a web-based interactive project under the general title "Política común" [Common politics] that brings together scholars writing in Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese (initial platform). This is a new international project, co-sponsored by Instituto 17 in Critical Theory, from Mexico, and the University of Aberdeen. Another project is the collective website antiscolastique [Antischolasticism] based in France.blication this month is Bosteels' new book: Alain Badiou, une trajectoire polémique (La Fabrique, 2009).
Debra Castillo, Emerson Hinchcliff Professor of Spanish Literature and Director of the Latin American Studies Program, will be the Literature Keynote Speaker at the 18th Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature and Linguistics, Merging Textualities, Emerging Paradigms, to be held November 13-14 at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin. More about the conference . . .
Laurent Dubreuil, Professor of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature and Director of the French Studies Program, has just published his fourth book, À force d'amitié (Hermann Éditeurs, 2009), "an essay on passionate friendship, from Aristotle to facebook, from Euripides to Montaigne, or from Gossip Girl to Derrida. The book offers a re-reading of the minority traditions of friendship in (post) Greek thought, while exploring the biographical frame of any 'sentimental theory.'" More . . .
Read the review by Jean Birnbaum from Le monde.
Earlier this year, Dubreuil was awarded a Mellon New Directions Fellowship to investigate the cognitive study of language and non-standard logic as part of his ongoing inquiry into links between language and literary thought. The fellowship will support a year and two summers of research and study into the status of contradiction in thought and language and the power of signification in language for a book he is researching, tentatively titled, "The Indiscipline of Literary Studies." Read the full text of the article in the Cornell Chronicle Online.
Assistant Professor of French Literature Cary Howie's book, Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Medieval Literature (Palgrave, 2007), was the subject of a conference held November 13 at George Washington University. More information available here.
In 2008 Foreign Policy magazine named Edmundo Paz-Soldán one of the 50 Most Influential Iberoamerican Intellectuals, along with Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Mario Vargos Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, Pedro Almodovar, and Fidel Castro. More from the Cornell Chronicle article. Paz-Soldán work as an acclaimed novelist and teacher is also featured in the Fall 2009 issue of Ezra: Cornell's Quarterly Magazine.
Read the latest edition of sans papier , the first collection of electronic pre-publications in the field of French and Francophone studies.
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Rafael Acosta Morales (Spanish) will be enjoying the 2010 "Jóvenes Creadores" fellowship from Mexico's Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, which will fund the manuscript of his next novel: "Conquistador." The novel deals with international drug trade, violence, and colonial relationships.
Ioana Vartolomei (French), gave a paper on October 2 at a conference at York University in Toronto. The conference addressed Langages poétiques et poésie francophone en Amérique du Nord, and Vartolomei's talk was entitled "L'Écrivain révolutionnaire au Québec: Gaston Miron et l'engagement dans le langage poétique."
Dafna Hornike (Spanish) presented her research in a talk entitled, "'If I were me'-nomadic cyborgs in Lispector and Santos-Febres," at the Romance Studies Graduate Student Conference, Machines & Machinations, held September 18-19 at Cornell. Dafna and fellows graduate students Rafael Acosta Morales (Spanish), Karen Benezra (Spanish), Morgane Cadieu (French), Zachary Gooch (French), and Julie Mann (Spanish) moderated sessions.
Congratulations to the Winners of the Teaching Assistantship Awards for Academic year 2008-2009:
First Prize, for Outstanding Performance as a Graduate Teaching Assistant: Cory Browning
Certificates of Recognition, for Meritorious Performance as Graduate Teaching Assistants: Karen Benezra, Ashley Brandenburg, and Melissa Figueroa
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